When Lockheed’s F-104 Starfighter first roared into the skies, it looked like a machine from another world. With razor-thin wings, blistering acceleration, and a climb rate that could outpace nearly ...

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter began life as a technological leap forward a supersonic interceptor designed to climb faster, fly higher, and move quicker than anything else in the sky. With its needle ...

The final chapter in the operational career of the legendary F-104 unfolded at Grazzanise Air Base on Oct. 31, 2004. Of the 15 nations that operated one of the 2,580 Lockheed F-104 Starfighters ...

The F-104’s safety record was, frankly, atrocious. Lightweight. Simple. Fast. The F-104 Starfighter was designed, in a time of increasing aircraft complexity and size, to be a straightforward, ...